I agree with that; technically there are a lot of swear words, and I don't know why that one is considered the nastiest of them all.

I think it's because it is also possible to use the above words as terms of affection in banter. eg. 'You, you cock.' Said laughingly.

I don't think the same can be said of the c word, which always seems to be said with nastiness and venom.

How do you think those words made it into polite conversation then?

Me neither. I find it offensive, as a woman, that this gendered word is considered the worst of them all. Is it to protect my parts or to be offended by them?

Personally I hate the word p*ssy far more.

Yes this one makes me feel ill.

NOTHING is or ever will be as disgusting as the word 'moist' though. I don't even know why either.

Great post. Reading it reassures that you will never have to resort to swearing with every other word.

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I agree with you. I hate the way it is creeping into everyday use and find it the most insulting word and yes it does offend me. It just shows up the person who uses as a moron as you rightly said

I don't think they have made it into 'polite' conversation, but I imagine that more people feel more comfortable with less harsh words.

It's no different to most words, all about context. What you're doing at the time. What kind of mood you're in. Who you're saying it too! Why are you saying it.

About all of that.

Some women are fond of it sexually. Again CONTEXT is very often king!!

I didn't realise i had such a problem with it myself until hearing the toxic way Charlie spat it out! That moment symbolised how low BB sunk tonight.

Given your explanation, isn't that a bit of a contradiction?

Only word I hate. I don't know why. I've said it once in a jokey way to a friend. Once when retelling a story and once in response to a news story about ISIS.

But it hasn't been beeped out on BB for a while now. I think I remember Narinder being the first person on Live TV to ever say it in BB2. Can't remember if it was beeped.

But depends. Sometimes it's aired but recently it hasn't. It was beeped out when Shell called Victor that but I remember it being said on C4 properly too.

And the word that cringes me out most is 'moist'.

Agree OP. That swear word is the worst to me, it sounds so crude and harsh.

Interesting. Here I find the issue is more complex. When any swear word is directed at you, it does feel like a disregard of you as a human (which is what it is if you are calling someone a swear word I guess.) But I suppose, since we all hear swearing so often, it feels less that way to me personally when I see someone call someone else it. All swear words are equal, but some are more equal than others. For me, I find this word more shocking than other words as a word. But as an insult, if spoken in spite, I don't find any worse than another (And if said as spitefully, putting down a person with no swearing at all is equally horrid. Likely worse as rather than a random insult, you're attacking some specific aspect of their self...) Hmm.....

ETA: Sorry, I see you deleted your post claremont - do you want me to delete this? I quoted it before you deleted (clearly!) I don't think you said anything bad!

Also, thank you sutie (and sorry, I did go a bit (errr.... or very!) off topic!

And yet, no one has given me one reason other than 'I was always told' as to why this word is harsh.

Sometimes it would be improper not to use it.

The p*ssy part? I see your reasoning but I don't think so as I don't externalise it or try to police the use of that word.

And I thought I was the Andy of this forum.

It shocks you because it has been censored, and that's about all.

All swear words are repulsive. I don't see the logic in identifying one word to be worse than another. It's after the warter shed. It's an adult show. I don't see the problem

Can I ask you Tahitian why you feel so strongly about the point raised? I know what the origins of the word are, but it seems to be now used as an everyday sentence filler, and people seem to think that using this word makes them sound more impressive and certainly very intimidating if used in the wrong way. My initial comment was meant as a fingerpoint to Charlie for initially spitting it out at Jason the way she did.

It is a 'Harsh' 'Nasty', word, usually 'SPAT' out by a cretin who is lost for anything intelligent to say.

In my work I use a nursery rhyme music book, and do you know how many nursery rhymes there are which are actually not even at all veiled, but entirely brazen kitten-based sexual references.

Sometimes a child picks a page and I think !!! I can't sing and play that!!!

Not all things that are nursery rhymes were originally written with the intention of being ditties for children, for sure!

You're right. It doesn't offend me. It shocks me is all. It doesn't offend me to hear the word any more than hearing anyone being utterly nasty without swearing does. I don't really see why a word in itself is more offensive than any other word.

But it shocks me to hear the word in everyday conversation and it shocks me that sometimes I hear kids say it. I guess that is what bothers me. Not the word, but the normalizing of all such words, which to me, this feels the most extreme case of.

Also it doesn't offend me I just don't like it.
If someone says it I'm a bit 'ooo'. Something I don't do with any other words